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Crispy buffalo cauliflower bites are a taste delight

Forks Over Knives recipe developer Darshana Thacker Wendel knows how to turn cauliflower into an addictive, but healthy snack. There is a series of Forks Over Knives books providing useful whole food plant-based recipes, but the website offers even...

Wild about glacier country

Mike Yardley discovers South Westland’s natural splendour seems to grow in awe-inspiring intensity the further south you go. There’s a fairy-tale quality to the sense of escapism, as you drive through those long and leafy highway glades, where...

Golden double-hull champs

Horouta’s superstar crew Kaiarahi Toa lived up to their favouritism on the penultimate day of the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals on Lake Karāpiro yesterday. And you can bet your house there will be more gold for them in huge final day of action today...

Challenge time for junior lifesavers

The Gisborne Coastal Challenge for the district’s young up-and-coming junior surf lifesaving athletes will be staged at Wainui today. It was at northern Makorori last summer and was a huge success. The carnival is for youngsters aged 11-14 years...

Hui to share views on Māori response

Only just getting settled into running the country, the coalition Government is facing a period of challenge on what could be the defining issue of its whole term, its relationship with Māori. Thousands of tangata whenua converge on Tūrangawaewae...

Opposing views of conflict both have merit

Clive Bibby I have always enjoyed watching Al Jazeera, which provides a diametrically opposing view of the war in Gaza to the one you will find on channels that are more favourably inclined towards the Israeli cause and justification for its...

Spartina destroys habitat

There have been recent comments and letters regarding Gisborne District Council’s spartina grass eradication programme. It is worth noting that spartina grass is on the pest weed lists of most district and regional councils in the country and for...

‘Progressive containment’

Re: Any consultation, consent? January 16 letter. The plant “spartina” is listed in the council’s Plant Pest Management Strategy as a “progressive containment plant” — look it up on their website — which does mean that consultation has...

‘A crash waiting to happen’

Police and Gisborne District Council are in consultation about the deteriorated state of a rural intersection where a two-car, high-speed crash occurred on December 29, resulting in multiple injuries.

Williams in class of her own on way to sixth Premier title

She’s no Dame yet but Tairāwhiti juggernaut Akayshia Williams showed similarities to Olympic Games kayaking superpower Lisa Carrington as she made it six Premier women’s crowns on W1 day of the waka ama sprint nationals. The Self Storage...

Poverty Bay crown triples champions

Heat was the third party in every game played in Poverty Bay Bowling Club's open championship triples. The championships were played over two days in sweltering conditions. The two-life format was used, with games of one hour 45 minutes or 12 ends...

Boost for HSOB

The first session of play in Premier Grade club cricket at the Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow is all-important. The crunch session of OBR-HSOB on the No. 2 ground and Horouta-GBHS on the representative wicket may be that between 11am-1pm on Day 2 of...

A mess for party but sympathy for Golriz

The resignation statement from Green MP Golriz Ghahraman this week answered quite a lot of the questions that have swirled since a first allegation of shoplifting surfaced on January 10, alongside news she had stood aside from her portfolios. She...

Alakazam! From wetland to wasteland

Tanith Wirihana Te Waitohioterangi Most Māori perspectives emphasise the symbiotic, interdependent relationship between humans and the environment. The dominant Eurocentric philosophies, which prioritise rationalism and self-interest, frequently...

Given up on maintenance?

Re: A car crash that was waiting to happen, January 17. I agree with our editor’s comments in his recent editorial, concerning the Bloomfield Road-Bushmere Road intersection. It appears that our District Council has given up on routine maintenance...

So lucky with our hospital

I wish to congratulate the doctors, nurses and staff of Gisborne Hospital who are involved in helping those who are in real need of help. My wife, son and I tested Covid-positive recently and with only one lung these past 14 years, I have to be very...